Re: Symbolic link pointing to Oracle Home

From: Sybrand Bakker <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl>
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 09:14:28 +0200
Message-ID: <th1a6oaur498d6@beta-news.demon.nl>

"Allen" <allenh_at_starbase.neosoft.com> wrote in message news:83B78F625BD987F9.082473B74423C95B.1CD4909F705BD4D2_at_lp.airnews.net...
>
> Solaris 7.. I used to do this with Oracle 7, have a symbolic link
> pointing to Oracle Home. Is this still cool with 8i? Any problems for
> OEM or other Oracle tools? Having a symlink sure makes it easier when I
> upgrade versions to new directories. I also like having symlinks pointing
> to datafile locations, makes it easier to move them around if necessary.
>
> thx.. Allen

IMO it has never been cool, and it is for the lazy only. It has resulted in problems at various sites I have been overseeing more than once, because people beliieved Oracle was installed two times, and there seemed to be lack of disk space. You can guess what happened. I would avoid using links as much as possible, except for the init.ora (and config.ora)

Hth,

Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA Received on Sun May 27 2001 - 02:14:28 CDT